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#cyanobacteria — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cyanobacteria, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Hot climate extremes and overcrowded industrial agriculture

    * Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry >>
    news.mongabay.com/short-articl

    * "The ​heat is also hitting cattle farmers. High temperatures reduce feed intake, increase ​water demand and ⁠cut milk output. They're standing there with ​their mouths wide open, just trying to find air...It's very difficult, physically for people and for the animals." >>
    reuters.com/business/environme
    #FossilFuels #Climate #HotPlanet #FactoryFarming #livestock #Meat #poultry #cattle #pigs #DieOff #ExtremeHeat #water #cyanobacteria #eutrophication #Birds #wildlife #Biodiversity #MassMortalities #carcasses #agriculture #Pathogens #PoultryFlu #overstocking #habitability

  2. Our paper demonstrates a simple method for monitoring harmful #algal_blooms / #cyanobacteria in a #lake over space and time, using #ChlorophyllA as a proxy and open source satellite imagery. You just need a few well-timed chl-a samples from your lake to calibrate an #aquatic chlorophyll index cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/ #earthobservation #SatelliteRemoteSensing #PigeonLake #lake_ecology

  3. Never a Dull Enzyme schaechter.asmblog.org/schaech @STCmicrobeblog

    Emergence of fractal geometries in the #evolution of a metabolic enzyme: Franziska Sendker et al. nature.com/articles/s41586-024

    "Citrate synthase from S. elongatus has the peculiar capacity to self-assemble into a type of #fractal shape known as a #Sierpiński triangle. This is not a universal feature of citrate synthases, there's something unique about the one from this #cyanobacterium."

    #bacteria #microbes #cyanobacteria #fractals

  4. The #symbioses that gave rise to primary #organelles are key events in the origin of #Eukaryotes. @PierreSGarcia @FredBarras & @SGribaldo use markers from 2 conserved machineries for [Fe-S] cluster biogenesis to support an early emergence of #mitochondria & #plastids within #Alphaproteobacteria & #Cyanobacteria #PLOSBiology plos.io/3FNP5E5